$50 iBooks

Tuesday, 16 August 2005

This has got to be one of the wildest I’ve read in awhile. Apparently a county in Virginia was selling 4 year old Apple laptops for a bargain-basement price of $50.00. People started lining up at 1 AM and it just went downhill from there… cutting in line, bruises, scrapes and mayhem… I guess they had 1,000 of them, and about 12,000 people showed up.

This kind of reminds me of those after Thanksgiving day sales when stores give away free stuff for the first 50 shoppers or whatever.

Here’s some quotes from CNN:

Blandine Alexander, 33, said one woman standing in front of her was so desperate to retain her place in line that she urinated on herself.

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Jesse Sandler said he was one of the people pushing forward, using a folding chair he had brought with him to beat back people who tried to cut in front of him. “I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, ‘Bam,'” the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook, as he tapped away on the keyboard at a testing station. “They were getting in front of me and I was there a lot earlier than them, so I thought that it was just,” he said.